festal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhocks and poison ivy, and it looked real festal and bowery."
- "They were, at any rate in their inception, genuinely religious or genuinely social and festal; and from either point of view they were far better than the secrecy of private indulgence which characterizes our modern world in these matters."
- "Amidst this fetor the Burmese masses live their festal and contemplative existences."
- "Athanasius of Alexandria’s thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible. Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367 C.E., during the final decade of his life."
Etymology
From Middle French festal, from Latin festum (“feast”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dʰeh₁-, festal, festum
Inflected Forms
more festal (comparative)
most festal (superlative)